{
  "id": 6188950,
  "title": "Govt’s 3 million new jobs target next year deemed ‘ambitious’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/govts-3-million-new-jobs-target-next-year-deemed-ambitious",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-07T23:30:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Jakarta Post",
    "slug": "the-jakarta-post",
    "url": "https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2026/09/08/govts-3-million-new-jobs-target-next-year-deemed-ambitious.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Indonesia aims to create more than 3 million new jobs in 2027, with Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa revealing a target of between 2.57 million and 3.49 million jobs next year. The government has included the proportion of formal jobs as a development indicator in the State Budget draft for 2027, aiming to increase the share from 37.95 percent this year to 40.81 percent. However, businesses and economists have deemed this goal ambitious, stressing that achieving it would require reducing the cost of doing business to spur investment and incentivize labor-intensive industries to improve their competitiveness.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}